Let’s just say that you were friends with someone with the exact same name as you.

I don’t just mean your first name…I mean first middle and last. (I had a friend named Todd in elementary school. Though he spelled his with two “d’s and his last name was certainly not the same as mine.)

Now, lets say that you and this person that you are friends with (and has the exact same name as you) decided to go out on the town and people started yelling “There goes (insert your name here) “ whenever they saw you two out on the town together?

NOW….let’s suppose the EVERYTIME YOU GO OUT…the people always shout your names at you. My god! You would either become a recluse or give the witness protection program a try right?

What a ridiculous song that “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt“ is!

Was there a real guy named John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt? What did John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt do? Just walk out on the town with another person called John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt? Why did he write a song about his friend John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt and how they went out on the town together? What are the chances of two people being named John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt? Were they friends or acquaintances? Maybe they were brothers?

Did John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt write the song about him and his frined John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt to gain notoriety? Was John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt a popular songwriter? Maybe John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt was the Bob Dylan of his era? Was the song a big hit? Or was it more like a novelty song? Did people take John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt seriously?

Boy, there are a lot of variables to consider here. I guess I am just glad that my name isn’t John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt and that there isn’t another person with the same name as me. Otherwise, we would never be able to hang out together. Especially in a library. Can’t have people yelling out our names in a library!

My brain hurts now.

That is today’s cartoon folks. I need to go google this John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt and see if I can get to the bottom of all of this craziness. Until next time!

Cheers,

~tod